Category: Turbidites

The CoRE research group that I lead at Colorado School of Mines visited Houston, TX last week to attend the 100th conference of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG). It is an industry-focused scientific conference that brings together academia and industry to address basic and applied scientific problems for the petroleum industry. I include a …

With three new grad students recently accepted into the CoRE research group at Colorado School of Mines, I wanted to take them into the field to scope out thesis projects and just to show them some classic turbidite locales in California. Here is a very quick overview of that trip, and some pertinent references in case …

I tweeted an image that got a lot of attention the other day and wanted to follow it up with a quick post describing the deposit. The back story is this: Lesli Wood, a submarine landslide expert, showed an image at a recent conference that is a spectacular example of a mass transport deposit (MTD), or …

Callan Bentley over at Mountain Beltway just posted about Aden Crater, and I though i would share a few photos from Kilbourne Hole, a nearby maar volcanic crater. It's only about 15 miles from my childhood home, and I went there quite a bit in high school, both for geology and just to get out …

After a long hiatus due to general craziness at work and at home, I am starting up the blog again with this call for a cool geology sign. The Ross Sandstone is a upper Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) formation along the coast in western Ireland that is famous for its excellent turbidite channel and lobe exposures. See …

For a while now, the most popular page on my site has been this one, a photo of a Halloween pumpkin I carved to look like the Bouma sequence. It is the most popular because people are looking for information about the Bouma sequence, so it is time to do a real post on the …

The blog has been quiet for a while, but here is one I had to share. This photo was taken about 35,000 feet above the Mississippi river near New Madrid, MO. New Madrid is famous for earthquakes in the early 1800s that altered the course of the river (see this ppt for an overview). The …